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5 Ways to Reduce Employee Turnover by Focusing on Job Satisfaction
For managers, creating job satisfaction for employees can seem like a cumbersome and elusive task. Although you want employees to be happy with your company and their position, job satisfaction isn’t "one-size-fits all." As tough as ensuring employee job satisfaction...
What is the Birkman and How does The Wineinger Company use it to Change Lives
The Birkman Method questionnaire and resulting Birkman reports have been in use for over 65 years, during which time the Report has evolved from a description of the respondent dictated by Dr. Roger W. Birkman to a sophisticated, multiple-format outline of people’s...
The Birkman Method® Helps Identify and Train Potential Leaders for 21st Century Medicine
As the skilled worker shortage continues to escalate across the country, hospitals and other healthcare organizations are exploring different strategies that will help them build their next generation of leaders. The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston,...
9 Steps for Onboarding a New Hire Into your Company
Being part of a management team comes with a lineup of responsibilities, and one responsibility may include onboarding new hires to your team. No matter how obvious the tasks of the new hire's role may seem to you, you already know the ropes at your company. New hires...
3 Ways the Birkman Assessment Paints a Richer Picture of an Individual
The Birkman Method is a favorite personality and career assessment of those experienced in the industry because it paints a richer picture of an individual. Just like how TV screens have varying resolutions – standard definition, high definition, 4K – personality...
NEW Birkman Advanced Summary Report Released!
The Birkman Assessment is the world-renowned assessment tool that we utilize here at The Wineinger Company in business and career development. The Birkman is a multi-faceted, scientifically based assessment which provides personality and occupational data to help...
Students: How to Find your Career Path
STUDENTS: Are you feeling overwhelmed? Intimidated? Confused? Choosing a career path can be daunting to say the least. This guide is a valuable tool which will help you find the answers you have been looking for and plot a course for not only a successful career, but...
“If you want to be successful, you have to vacation”
"vacation" noun, often attributive va·ca·tion \vā-ˈkā-shən, və-\ | Popularity: Top 40% of words Simple Definition of vacation : a period of time that a person spends away from home, school, or business usually in order to relax or travel : the number of days or...
6 Strategies for Building Trust in Your Team
Trust is a must when it comes to team development. Without it, teams are apt to lack innovation, creative thinking, collaboration, and productivity. With it, team members feel safe and comfortable enough to open up and take the risks that can lead to exceptional...
Why We Work
LINDSAY MCGREGOR AND NEEL DOSHI, writers for FAST COMPANY report that after performing thousands of interviews on workers, the reasons we work come down to three things: Play, Purpose, and Potential. Further down on their list come items such as economic need and and...
How to Make Team Conflict a Positive Experience
Conflict within a team is inevitable, but it doesn’t always have to be debilitating. In fact, handling conflict constructively can actually strengthen a team, fostering development and trust. When problems arise, it's easy for people to display some less than...
The Birkman
Birkman has grown over the past 60 years to be one of the most influential personality assessments for people across the globe. As we continue to grow, our family culture and proud roots remain at the core of our values and vision. Reaching Further for Greater...
How to Improve Company Culture
Ensure long-term success by effectively recruiting, hiring and equipping the right team members. Create a culture which suits both the company and the team by building an energetic work environment and strategic individual growth plans. The Wineinger Company offers a...
Don’t Miss the Bus: Utilizing Talent
TALENT When organizations don’t have the right talent in the right place, the results are costly: missed opportunities, unsatisfied clients and ultimately, a negative impact on your company’s bottom line. Recruiting and retaining qualified talent is a key to success....
Ensure Long Term Success: Retaining Talent
“If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don’t have to manage them.” ~Jack Welch With a clear organizational layout, employees at all levels of the company are able to take...
Ensure Long Term Success: Hire Effectively
Ensure long-term success by effectively recruiting, hiring and equipping the right team members. An effective hiring process leans on the social sciences and proven assessments tools. We partner with your company to develop an effective interviewing and screening...
Ensure long-term success: Recruiting
Ensure long-term success by effectively recruiting, hiring and equipping the right team members. RECRUITING Great recruiting makes a profound impact on companies’ bottom lines! According to the book Novotus Co-Founder, Recruiting outperforms all other human resource...
The Validity of Hiring
Peter Drucker, in his widely esteemed book The Essential Drucker, wrote in 2001 that “Executives spend more time on managing people and making decisions than on anything else, and they should. No other decisions are so long lasting in their consequences or so...
The Cost of Bad Hiring
Recruiting and hiring employees can be the most important work that a leader does. Current statistics show that a bad hire can cost a company from 4 to 20 times that position’s annual salary. Take a moment to do the actual math for the average salary in your...
Executive Coaching, Life Coaching, Career Coaching, Oh My!
We're living in a day when how-to's and "expert advice" are bombarding us everywhere we turn! How is it that everyone is suddenly an exert? How do we know if we should engage a professional business coach, and how on earth do we find a legitimately good one? If you're...
Is your Organization Achieving Optimal Organizational Productivity?
With a clear organizational layout, employees at all levels of the company are able to take ownership of their work and maximize their productivity. An effective organizational structure utilizes talent, enables healthy growth from conflict, and maps out a clear path...
Conflict Management Suggestions: A Procedure for Managing Conflict
Conflict Management Suggestion Sheet: A Procedure for Managing Conflict The following procedure has been shown to be helpful in managing conflict in an organizational setting: Do not ignore something that bothers you. Work on the issue involved before the situation...
Successful People Are Not Daunted By Conflict
By: Amy Shepley "10 things By Which Successful People Are Not Daunted". This was the title of an interesting article I saw recently on Forbes.com. One item on the list really stood out to me: “Successful people are not daunted by conflict. Conflict is the currency of...
Morning Rituals
As a night owl and non-morning person, I’ve always felt a bit like a slacker because I don’t bounce out of bed and run 5 miles before meditating, breakfast, writing thank you notes, gratitude journaling, and doing a load of laundry. I’ve been known to have a...
Mastering Time Management
Do you have a reputation for being late? Or maybe you feel like you struggle just to keep up and get places feeling prepared? The first step to being a good time manager, is recognizing that time is more than just 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, etc....
Dealing with Distraction
A NEW RHYTHM If you are working on a process of getting and being better in the areas of your life that are most important to you, it's important to first make space in your current way of life. Adding on to your schedule is not a pathway to success. Replacing old way...
3 Steps to Create a Strategic Plan for 2017
"Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now" ~Alan Lakein At The Wineinger Company, strategic planning is a huge part of what we do. Whether it's one on one career coaching, or corporate training, we could not guide our...
9 Reasons a Career Coach IS For You
Are you happy with your current career? If you are, do you have a plan to keep it on track? No matter where you are in your career (or career planning process), you can most likely benefit from a Career Coach. Here's why: Establish clear goals and a plan of action. A...
Are You Wired For Strategic Planning?
Birkman and Strategy Another key element in our Back to School and Work season is our ability to use Strategic Planning to accomplish our goals. Have you ever wondered how you are wired for Strategic Planning? With the Birkman tool, we don’t have a specific...
Samples of Strategic Plans
Strategic planning involves vision, mission, and out-of-the-box thinking. It defines where you are heading. Just as a blueprint maps out how to build something, your Strategic Plan is the schematic for how to accomplish your dreams and vision. It displays the...